In a recent BBC report, a Pakistani neighbor living near the supposed Osama Bin Laden compound identifies then man in video released by the Pentagon, which reportedly show Osama Bin Laden watching himself on TV, as Akhbar Khan and not Osama Bin Laden.
The man interviewed tells the BBC about the man in the video “He is my neighbor, His name is Akhbar Khan, He owns the house……I know him very well”
No comments yet by Washington.
Very objective assessment.
We share your anguish and concern.
So long as people are aware of the failings of the State , any problem can be fixed.
For that The people of Pakistan must realize that they hold the power to drive the megalomaniacs out.
Also that the average Pakistani is not really concerned about jingoism whether it be Nationalistic or Religious.
Every Pakistani is, as far as I come to know of them,are as much patriotic and religious as the jokers who control Pakistan.
If only well-meaning people come forward to set Religious and false Patriotism away and set Growth as their objective,decide to throw away the corrupt Generals and Politicians of yore,infuse young blood( preferably Non-resident Pakistanis), FIRMLY DECIDE THAT DEMOCRACY IS THE OPTION and resolve that they shall resolve their problems including Economic, with-out running to West,especially the US, Pakistan shall be in the comity of Proud and Self Reliant Nation.
There is no joy in asking this. Pakistan exists in a tough neighbourhood. A strong and vibrant army is necessary and desirable.
But as the initial shock and disbelief wears off, there is a deep, deep sense of unease here.
Did they know he was here? Surely, they knew he was here?…..
It’s too frightening to make sense of. The world’s most-wanted terrorist. A man who triggered the longest war in American
history. The terrorist mastermind the world’s only superpower has moved heaven and earth to track down. A decade of
hunting. Hundreds of billions of dollars spent. The blood of countless Americans and others spilled.
And when he was finally found, he was found wrapped in the bosom of the Pakistani security establishment….
Why would they do it? What did they hope to gain? Pakistan has nothing in common with Al Qaeda. They serve no purpose to us; there is no confluence of interests that can be imagined.
Did we think we could produce him like a rabbit out of the hat when we needed to? Did we think if we turned him over, the American attention span would lapse and they’d move on, leaving us unable to suckle at the teats of the superpower?
Or, assured in our assumptions about the world around us, did we simply think we could get away with it?
It makes no sense. And yet, perhaps there was an inevitability to this. Did the 1965 war make any sense? It was hard to find any sense to it then, even less so today.
Did Kargil make any sense? Not then, not today.
Did hawking nuclear paraphernalia on the international market make any sense? Buying did perhaps, but selling? And now we
have the world’s most-wanted terrorist recovered from the bosom of the Pakistani security establishment.
So maybe it does make sense after all. The establishment has flirted with irrationality in the past. Now it appears to have
perfected it…..
As long as national security and foreign policy remain in the hands of a cabal of generals — unaccountable and untouchable, a
lay unto themselves, and in thrall to their own irrational logic — what future can this country have? Surely, not much of a
future.
Is self-correction an option? Good luck trying to find anyone in the homeland or beyond with even a modicum of knowledge
and understanding of the institution who believes it is capable of reforming itself.
Zia’s army, Musharraf’s army, Kakar and Karamat’s army — it may seem difficult to reconcile the differences. But while they were very different men, the strategic orientation of the army has more or less been the same. Some addressed the strategic imperatives from a religious angle, others from a more secular angle, but it has always been the army’s angle.
Can anything be done?
The outside world can’t fix us. In fact, even now the US is probably a better friend of the Pakistan Army than of the Pakistani people. Soldiers and intelligence networks are more useful than an under-educated and impoverished population. Double-gamers and duplicitous allies at least have something to offer; what can the wretched Pakistani people offer myopic Americans?
Can we fix ourselves? Take a look around. Does anyone think Asif Zardari has what it takes? Nawaz Sharif may have the chutzpah, but does he have the nous? Beyond them, what is there but a fetid pool of opportunists and political mercenaries?
So maybe that’s the answer after all. They knew. They knew he was there. And they knew they could get away with it……
POTUS is fully justified.
For Proof read the Related Story.
Pakistan, this is the amount of trust you inspire in your’allies’!
JANE COWAN: The President makes no apologies though, for keeping Pakistan in the dark until the operation was over.
BARACK OBAMA: If I’m not revealing to some of my closest aides what we’re doing, then I sure as heck am not going to be revealing it to folks who I don’t know.
JANE COWAN: No apologies either for burying Osama bin Laden‘s body at sea.
BARACK OBAMA: Frankly, we took more care on this than, obviously, bin Laden took when he killed 3,000 people. He didn’t have much regard for how they were treated and desecrated. But that, again, is something that makes us different.
Related:
Islamabad
The government has decided not to conduct inquiry of any kind at any level whatsoever about the shameful Abbottabad incident to find out the real culprits responsible for intelligence failure and violation of Pakistani borders and sovereignty. Only an in-house probe will be conducted by the Pakistan Army, it is reliably learnt from federal cabinet sources.
Credible Foreign Office sources say that this attitude of the Zardari-led Gilani government is also under American pressure that there was no need now to find out how the Pakistan intelligence agencies and intelligence system failed to monitor Osama or detect the arrival, operation and departure of US helicopters and other aircraft.
Some media reports say a few US institutions are officially asking Pakistan to apprise them of the reasons for its intelligence failure to find out Osama s hideout near its top military school a few kilometres from its capital.
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2011/s3211866.htm
ISI Chief,Pasha was reportedly called to US and he was reported to have left for Washington,presumably to explain ISI’s role in Osama affair and more specifically to provide the US with the names of those connected with Al Qaeda.
“Buoyed by Osama bin Laden’s elimination, the United States is pushing Pakistan to identify some of its top intelligence operatives to determine whether any of them had contact with the slain Al-Qaeda chief, a leading American newspaper reported Saturday.
http://www.hindu.com/2011/05/08/stories/2011050853401000.htm
Washington is mum.
Pakistan media later reported that he was not traceable.
In the mean while Saudi Prince had a meeting with Pakistan in Islamabad in an unscheduled visit.
As of now, there is no word of Pasha.
It is speculated that he has flown either to Saudi Arabia or China.
By conservative estimates, bin Laden cost the United States at least $3 trillion over the past 15 years, counting the disruptions he wrought on the domestic economy, the wars and heightened security triggered by the terrorist attacks he engineered, and the direct efforts to hunt him down.
Despite all this expense , to identify Osama, a SEAL(6′) had to lie down beside the body. which made Obama remark could have bought a tape measure along with the Aircraft which cost 3 million $!’
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